March 2018: ✈ Oliver Linnenberg takes a visit to the Group of Magnetism and Functional Molecules (led by Guillem Aromí) at University of Barcelona (Spain). His short-term scientific mission funded by the COST Action CA15128 "Molecular Spintronics" (MolSpin) will last 2 months.

Maria Glöß presents a poster with the results of her PhD thesis at the 8th TO-BE meeting "An Oxide Technology Roadmap" and attends the 2nd TO-BE training school "Towards Oxides Applications: Opportunities and Challenges" taking place in Sant Feliu de Guixols (near Barcelona). Her participation in these scientific activities is funded by the COST Action MP1308 "Towards Oxide Based Electronics" (TO-BE).

February 2018:✈ A Master student Viktoria Khistyaeva (in the middle) from the Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry Group at St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation) visits our lab in the framework of “German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center” (G-RISC). Her short-term scientific missionwill last 4 weeks, where she will be working together with Ricarda Pütt (left) and Oliver Linnenberg (right).

January 2018: A collaborative work "Configurational isomerism in polyoxovanadates" between the research groups of Prof. Bensch (Kiel University), Prof. Schalley (Free University of Berlin), Prof. Kögerler (RWTH Aachen University) and our lab has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie!

December 2017: Kirill Monakhov has been selected and participating in the Young European Talent (YET) project taking place in Maastricht (the Netherlands). Read the report about this project on the LimburgCrossBorders website.

November 2017: Maria Stuckart (Forschungszentrum Jülich) has joined our lab as a PostDoc, and Brigitte Jansen (RWTH Aachen University) as a laboratory technician.

October 2017:Two Emmy Noether-project papers entitled "The Cu(I)-catalysed Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition route to (bio-)organic functionalisation of polyoxovanadates" and "Reconciling valence state with magnetism in mixed-valent polyoxometalates: The case of {VO2F2@V22O54} cluster" have been published in RSC journals, Dalton Transactions and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, respectively!

September 2017: Maria Glöß (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) has started her PhD thesis.

August 2017:✈ Prof. Dr. Elena V. Grachova from the Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry Group at St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation) visits our lab and gives a workshop (get PDF) on interdisciplinary aspects of coordination chemistry and luminescence of transition metal complexes in the framework of “German-Russian Interdisciplinary Science Center” (G-RISC). Since 2017 our research groups take part in this intercultural project. Read more about this workshop on the website of G-RISC: www.g-risc.org/teaching.

May 2017:Kirill Monakhov has been elected member of the Aachen-California Network of Academic Exchange (ACalNet). Read more about our research activities on the ACalNet website.

April 2017:Two Emmy Noether-project papers entitled "A V16-type polyoxovanadate structure with intricate electronic distribution: Insights from magnetochemistry" and "Molecular characteristics of a mixed-valence polyoxovanadate {VIV/V18O42} in solution and at the liquid-surface interface" have been published in ACS journals, Crystal Growth & Design and Journal of Physical Chemistry C, respectively!

March 2017:Congratulations to Henrika Hüppe (B.Sc.) who has received an VCI travel grant to attend the 19th JCF-Frühjahrssymposium at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). Henrika Hüppe has presented a poster describing the results of her Bachelor thesis.

February 2017:Our next Emmy Noether-project paper entitled "Breaking the Gordian knot in the structural chemistry of polyoxometalates: Copper(II)-oxo/hydroxo clusters" has been published inChemistry - A European Journal!

Read more about the structural peculiarities of polyoxocuprates (POCus) adopting the motifs of classical and noble-metal-based polyoxometalatesin the Concept article with DOI: 10.1002/chem.201605876.

January 2017:The group had the privilege of participating in the prestigious RWTHtransparent event where we presented the results of our multidisciplinary research.

Two posters are presented by our co-workers, Dr. Aleksandar Kondinski and Henrika Hüppe (B.Sc.), at the "Wöhler Tagung" in Berlin (Germany) and at the "International Student Conference - Science and Progress" in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), respectively.

August 2016: ✈ Henrika Hüppe (B.Sc.) will take a visit to the Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry Group at St. Petersburg State University (Russian Federation). Her research internship funded by the PROMOS scholarship program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) starts in September and will last 6 weeks.

July 2016: Ricarda Pütt (RWTH Aachen University) has started her PhD thesis.

May 2016: ✈ Dr. Aleksandar Kondinski will take a visit to the Quantum Chemistry Group (led by Josep Maria Poblet) at Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona, Spain). His short-term scientific mission funded by the COST Action CM1203 "Polyoxometalate Chemistry for Molecular Nanoscience" (PoCheMoN) starts in June.

Read more about this DFT study of the α-, γ-, and β-isomeric [VIV14E8O50]12– polyoxoanions and their heavier chalcogenide-substituted [VIV14E8O42X8]12– derivatives (E = SiIV, GeIV, and SnIV and X = S, Se, and Te) in DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02636.

January 2016: Aleksandar Kondinski (Jacobs University Bremen) has joined our lab as a PostDoc.

December 2015: Oliver Linnenberg (RWTH Aachen University) has started his PhD thesis.

November 2015: Our group will participate in activities of the Collaborative Research Centre 917 "Nanoswitches" (SFB 917).

October 2015: All our upcoming papers resulting from the Emmy Noether project will be marked with the DFG Emmy Noether label in our list of publications.

September 2015: Our lab has now joined the COST Action CM1203 "Polyoxometalate Chemistry for Molecular Nanoscience" (PoCheMoN) as Research Group.